PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:An IT professional with extensive technical management, project/program management, systems engineering and IT infrastructure/architecture design experience.Extensive network (WAN/LAN), mainframe/supercomputer and desktop/server environment experience involving multiple vendor hardware/software platforms. A solid reputation for technical delivery of complex projects and activities involving diverse stakeholder management and the associated challenges. A 'can do' attitude, while retaining a committment to standards and quality management principles to produce sustainable deliverables.Demonstrated experience in the education, finance, scientific, defence, government and commercial industry sectors. An approachable professional with an ability to convey technical content to all levels of an organisation, from senior management to end users. Ability to manage a product or information life cycle, from concept to delivery in an agile business or IT environment. Complex problems approached as a challenge for utilising acquired ICT knowledge, lateral thinking and 'outside the box' solutions, often in real time or large enterprise situations.An above average level of professional integrity and communication skills has enabled development of a 'trusted adviser' or partnership relationship with organisations, ranging from SME to large corporate. GOALS:To be able to utilise my extensive IT career knowledge and experience to enable emerging/leading edge technologies to be utilised in more innovative and cost effective ways, to deliver quality business processes and outcomes.A personal vision, to be able to more practically utilise and access the vast silos of knowledge currently stored more traditionally as data or information in various forms by organisations.Specialties: Technical management, CTO, systems engineering, project/program management, infrastructure design, architecture design, IT security, network engineering, consulting, mentoring, hardware/software instructor, negotiation skills, quality management, ITIL, Six Sigma, governance, programming languages, operating systems (Windows, Unix, Linux, Solaris), storage management, infrastructure management, local/state/federal government IT projects, vendor management, complex problem solving.